Example sentences of "it is [adv] difficult [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Describing Bell Lawrie as ‘ old friends of ours ’ , Brewin 's managing director , John Hall said yesterday : ‘ We are at the moment in negotiations , but it is pretty difficult to say too much until it is clear where we are going . ’ |
| 2 | It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper . |
| 3 | The basic premise of this approach is so startlingly simple that it is rather difficult to explain how damaging it actually is . |
| 4 | It is rather difficult to explain that . |
| 5 | There is also a division between professionals and amateurs , though at times it is rather difficult to draw the line . |
| 6 | A hearer who interpreted [ 20 ] as conveying [ 21 ] would have not have captured the full meaning of the utterance : On the other hand , it is rather difficult to say what exactly it fails to capture . |
| 7 | It is rather difficult to talk about human memory because we do n't know how the brain works in detail . |
| 8 | It is rather difficult to reconcile this with the ability of major brands in heavily advertised markets to establish and maintain their reputations over many years . |
| 9 | it is rather difficult to know whether this is support for Krashen 's proposal or not , but it certainly implies the separation of the process of meaning construction from the determination of final output form . |
| 10 | It is rather difficult to communicate the emotion of gloom and at the same time radiate joy . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , it is rather difficult to tell at the moment because it 's nearly dark , is n't it ? |
| 12 | It is equally difficult to deny that the radioactive fall-out from a nuclear explosion in fact consists of a cloud of poisonous gases . |
| 13 | In the course of one chapter we find the following phrases , in this order : there seems no explanation on Darwinian grounds It is no easier to explain It is hard to understand It is not easy to understand It is equally difficult to explain I do not find it easy to comprehend I do not find it easy to see … |
| 14 | It is equally difficult to present the ‘ Liberal Toryism ’ of the 1820s or Sir Robert Peel 's economic liberalism as precursors of ‘ libertarian ’ Conservatism . |
| 15 | It is equally difficult to work out what will happen to the ice sheets at the poles . |
| 16 | Apart from the problems of precisely delimiting areas that are experiencing desertification , it is equally difficult to determine whether or not rates of desertification are increasing . |
| 17 | Since the force exerted by the spring is the same at both low and high speeds , this makes it feel rather twitchy , and it is not difficult to overstress the aircraft at high speeds . |
| 18 | It is not difficult to deal with people who are pleasant and co-operative , but it requires intelligence , understanding , common sense and self-discipline to handle difficult and awkward people or situations without giving offence and putting yourself or the management in the wrong . |
| 19 | But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist . |
| 20 | In these circumstances it is not difficult to predict speedy failure , unless , as has been proposed , the line is taken over by a British firm which has secured the concession for the building of a line from Shanghai to Peking . |
| 21 | If this sounds cynical , it is not difficult to set up a simple experiment . |
| 22 | It is not difficult to set up a holiday firm and expand rapidly . |
| 23 | Since the sex , age and social class distributions for the general population are known it is not difficult to parcel out the interviewers ' tasks according to these criteria . |
| 24 | It is not difficult to illustrate the insight these sayings convey . |
| 25 | So it is not difficult to see how TB could spread from badger to cow . ’ |
| 26 | Proofs and Three Parables by George Steiner Faber , £5.99 READING Proofs and Three Parables , George Steiner 's latest collection of short stories ( he prefers to call them ‘ allegories of argument ’ ) , it is not difficult to see why dialectical method should be something that is more common to modern philosophy than to fiction . |
| 27 | 150 years after Marx and John Bright argued over free trade and democracy , it is not difficult to see who was right . |
| 28 | It is not difficult to see how ‘ Europe ’ , with all the unnatural passion that this word evokes among so-called pro-Europeans , might itself become one such absolute . |
| 29 | It is not difficult to see that a smallholding can not support a large mortgage as well as a family ! |
| 30 | It is not difficult to see why corporate crime has not received the same publicity as murder , robbery , theft , rape and so on — both in the mass media and in the study of crime . |